Improvement in fastenings for neckties



duitml tant JOHN BACHELDER, OF NORWICH, CONNECTICUT.

' Letters .Patent No. 91,406, dated Junel, 1869.

IMPROVEIENT IN FASTENINGV-S FOR NECKTIES.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the same.

lo whom it 'ma/y conce/rm Be it known that I, JOHN BAOHELDER, of Norwich, inthe county of New London, and: State of Connecticut, have invented a new and useful Improvement in,

the Manufacture and Fastening of Neckties'; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full and exact description of the construction and .mannen-of using the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, making a part of this specification, in which- Figure 1 is a back view of the metallic lock-plate, marked a.

Figure 2, a section of the same, parted as indicated by the red line M,

Figure 3, marked b, is a back view, Aand Figure 4, a section of the metallic clamp before being covered and clinched.

Fignre represents a frontvview, and

Figure 6, a side elevation of my locking-stud.

Figure 7 is a view of th'e back, and

-Figure 8, a front view of a finished necktie, made by combining the tw'o pieces a and b, figs. 1 to 4, with the fabric J, used for covering, and bows k, &c.

Figure 9 is a vertical cross-section of a. finished necktie, with lock-stud, as arranged when in use, parted, as indicated by the red lines`v y-y.

Figure 10, drawn on an enlarged scale, to enable me to show more. clearly its construction and arrangement, represents the combination of the metallic pieces a, b, and h, as arranged when in use, the covering-material, bo'w, Btc., omitted.

My necktie is Vdesigned to be used either in connection with a band to go entirely around the neck, with a standing collar, or as a ,front tie with a folding collar.

'lloV arrange the material and make a necktie, I first fold the fabric to be used for a vertical band around the clamp longitudinally over the edges, passing the clinching-points c c through holes made for the purpose.

points through holes cut for the purpose in their proper places.

Next I lay on the supporting-sprin g g, if one is used, in the same manner, and finally the lock-plate, in the. position as seen in the figs. 7V and 9.

The clinching-points o o, on the clamp, when the clamp and lock-plate are pressed together, 'project through the slots d d in the lock-plate, and are folded Y over or clinched, as seen in igs. 7, 9, and 10.

In fig. 9, Where it is show'n in use, e represents the band of the shirt, an eyelet or eyelet-hole being substituted for the ordinary button; f, the collar; g, the retainer, if one is used, (I propose to make them either with or without this retainer;) a, the lock-plate; h,the locking-stud, with the small head, inserted in its proper place in the lock-plate, its convex surface resting in a corresponding cavity in the lock-plate, made for thatpurpose.

Itis entered at the larger end of the slot at t, fig. 1,

`and the lock-plate drawn down until it is in the posh tion seen in the figure last described.

The retainer g, I make of India rubber, gutta-percha, metal, or pasteboard.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The fastening for neckties, consisting of the plates a and b and stud h, the plate a being provided with an enlarged entering-eye, fi, and a securing-eye, the

two connected by a slotor neck, and the latter countersunk, to conform tothe convex head of the stud and retain it in a Xed position, all arranged substantially as shown and described.

JOHN BAOHELDER.

Witnesses:

l A. O. OUTLER,

Gao. O. RIPLEY.

I then fold the bow or other ornament, and. L lay it across the vertical band, passing the clinching- 

